ALBERT EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST. Signed by Albert Einstein
Einstein, Albert
Verlag: Library of Living Philosophers, Evanston, Ill, 1949
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1st Edition. Albert Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Evanston, Ill.: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. First Trade Edition. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. SIGNED. Large 8vo., xvi, 781pp. Signed in black fountain pen as: "Albert Einstein / Princeton / 1950" on the title page. [neat previous owner's gift inscription on the front fly leaf] A very nice copy in the original dustwrapper showing light use. Includes essays by 25 leading scientists; Einstein's reply to their essays, a bibliography of Einstein's works, & an interesting 47-page autobiography by Einstein printed in both German & English on facing pages. Nicely illustrated throughout with photographs, a facsimile of a page of Einstein manuscript, & diagrams. Bibliography of the writings of Albert Einstein, to October 1949, compiled by M. C. Shields, pp. 689-758. Contributors include: Arnold Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Hans Reichenbach, P. W. Bridgman, Karl Menger, Max Von Laue, Kurt Gödel, Gaston Bachelard, & others. Signed trade editions are decidedly uncommon. Custom slipcase. Weil page 41 Appendix. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33707
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Titel: ALBERT EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST. ...
Verlag: Library of Living Philosophers, Evanston, Ill
Erscheinungsdatum: 1949
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1st Edition.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN : PHILOSOPHER - SCIENTIST -- COPY # 7 OF THE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION
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The Library of Living Philosophers, Evanston Illinois, 1949
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Anbieter: Gerard A.J. Stodolski, Inc. Autographs, Bedford, NH, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. EINSTEIN, ALBERT (1879-1955) Theoretical physicist. The book: Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, boldly Signed on the limitation page ''Albert Einstein 49.'' Copy 7 of 760. [The first 10 copies were reserved for special presentations.] The Library of Living Philosophers, Evanston Illinois. Small quarto, top edge gilt, 779 pages, 1949. Additionally inscribed and signed on half title page by Paul Arthur Schilpp [the editor]: ''To Dr. Barnaby C. Keeny, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the sincere gratitude and appreciation of Paul A. Schilpp. Summer 1969''. [Keeny was previously President of Brown University, and under his leadership saw some of Brown's largest expansions.] Chocolate brown leatherette covers with gilt lettering, in excellent condition. This copy does not have the frontis portrait of Einstein, nor does it appear to ever have had one, as the pagination is complete, with many pages uncut, unread, and unopened. Original brown board slipcase as issued. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY OF AN ESSENTIAL EINSTEIN ITEM, AND AN IMPORTANT BOOK IN THE EINSTEIN CANON. The seventh volume in ''The Library of Living Philosophers'' series, Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist is a tribute volume with essays by some of the most important scientists of the era reflecting on the importance of Einstein's work. Contributors include: Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Arnold Sommerfeld, Georges Lemaitre, Kurt Gödel, and many more. Of special note is the essay by Niels Bohr, 'Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics', which gives Bohr's perspective of the famous Einstein-Bohr debates. As Paul Schilpp notes in his Preface, 'These recollections of conversations with Einstein on the epistemological aspects of physical science would never have come into being, were it not for the peculiar nature of this series.' Einstein s important ''Autobiographical Notes'', [the first chapter], in German and English, and the final chapter by Einstein entitled: ''Remarks to the Essays Appearing in this Collective Volume'' are important biographical references. The ''Autobiographical Notes'' is the ''closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography'' (Abraham Pais). (Science, 21 April 1950) called this book a: ''most important and significant volume. It is most difficult to get scientists to write simply and clearly about the fundamentals of their science and the leading philosophical ideas that guide them In this book there is played out a great scientific drama of the last two decadesThe book starts with an intellectual autobiography by Einstein himself. He satirically calls it his obituary. I know of no other to compare with it. Neither Newton nor Maxwell nor any of the other great giants of physics had his Schilpp [the editor and our presenter] to catalyze such an effort. After reading Einstein's article one realizes the great loss this is to scientific culture''. A 'must have' for any serious collector of Einstein. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 221672
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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. SIGNED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN TO JOHN KEMENY.
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Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949., 1949
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Hardcover
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Anbieter: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xvi, 781 pp; 8 figs. Original blue cloth. There is creasing of some pages in the margins. Good, in dust jacket. The dust jacket is quite worn (see photos). First Edition. SIGNED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN TO JOHN KEMENY: "Meinem lieben Kemeny/ A. Einstein 50". "In 1943, Kemeny entered Princeton University where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during his studies to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where his boss was Richard Feynman. He also worked there with John von Neumann. Returning to Princeton, Kemeny graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1946 after completing a senior thesis, titled 'Equivalent logical systems', under the supervision of Alonzo Church. He then remained at Princeton to pursue graduate studies and received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1949 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled 'Type-theory vs. set-theory', also under the supervision of Alonzo Church. He worked as Albert Einstein's mathematical assistant during graduate school" (Wikipedia article on John Kemeny). "At age 22, a year before he earned his Ph.D., Kemeny became Albert Einstein's mathematical assistant. I once asked him why Dr. Einstein, of all people, needed a mathematician. With that gentle, mustached smile, John said, 'Einstein wasn't very good at math' (Campion, "True Basic. A Sketch of John Kemeny for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine"; a .pdf of this article can be found online). "People would ask did you know enough physics to help Einstein? My standard line was: Einstein did not need help in physics. But contrary to popular belief, Einstein did need help in mathematics. By which I do not mean that he wasn't good at mathematics. He was very good at it, but he was not an up-to-date research level mathematician. His assistants were mathematicians for two reasons. First of all, in just ordinary calculations, anybody makes mistakes. There were many long calculations, deriving one formula from another to solve a differential equation. They go on forever. Any number of times we got the wrong answer. Sometimes one of us got the wrong answer, sometimes the other. The calculations were long enough that if you got the same answer at the end, you were confident. So he needed an assistant for that, and, frankly, I was more up-to-date in mathematics than he was" (ask me for the source of this quote and I will tell you). A biography of John Kemeny was published in 2019: John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, the Times, and the College Presidency by Stephen Nelson. The book incorporates material from Kemeny's unpublished autobiography and includes a couple pages on how Kemeny became Einstein's mathematical assistant and their interaction when he was. NOTE: I am offering the trade edition of Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. There was also a limited and signed edition published in 1949 of 760 copies. Given the celebrity of Einstein, copies of the limited and signed edition always seem to be available (as I write this, six such copies are for sale online). They are nicely done, with the top edge gilt, and with a slipcase, so they are more sumptuous than the trade edition, and with the limited and signed edition of this book, you know you have a genuine Einstein signature. BUT: There is nothing personal about these copies (in rare instances Einstein did add a personal inscription to a limited and signed copy). So aside from differences in condition, these 760 copies are identical (unless you think a copy with a lower number is better than one with a higher number). The copy of the trade edition I am offering is in a very different category, because it was inscribed, and given personally, by Einstein to the recipient. And the recipient was someone who mattered to him. John Kemeny was a graduate student at Princeton when he became Einstein's mathematical assistant. This copy was Einstein's gift to "my dear Kemeny". The fact that John Kemeny went on to fame. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16466
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